Artists back tax on digital media

AUTHOR(S)

James, Alison

PUB. DATE

January 2001

SOURCE

Daily Variety;01/23/2001, Vol. 270 Issue 37, p21

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the stance of Culture Minister Catherine Tasca regarding the copyright levy on computers and digital recording devices in France, Paris. Reaction of the filmakers and musicians to the proposal of Tasca; Impact of the levy on cultural policy; Importance of the levy in protecting the rights of artists.

This Article analyzes the impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) on academic encryption research. In this Article, I argue that for both legal and practical reasons academic encryption researchers should be able to conduct and publish certain types of research without significant...

Copyright owners are increasingly using technological measures, often referred to as "digital rights management" systems, to protect their works in digital formats. In 1998, Congress granted copyright owners legal remedies against the circumvention of such measures and against the suppliers of...

Focuses on the social impact of copyright laws in Australia. Implication of digital technology on copyright; Reason for the proposal of the Australian government to amend the Copyright Act; Problems regarding digital versatile disc.

Focuses on the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the U.S. Ability of the copyright holders to push parodies to the fringes of the Internet completely; Performance of notice and takedown of any network for copyright violations; Need to promptly take down any items upon notice...

The article discusses a potential change in the extent of the French droit de suite, a right granted to artists or their heirs to receive a fee on the resale of their works of art, decided by French minister Christine Albanel.

Theatre is an influential site where gender ideals and roles are produced and performed; a laboratory where they can be naturalized. The kokumingeki undo, or "state theatre movement," developed in Japan during the mid-1930s, aimed to represent "the people" and forge a national culture. Kobayqshi...

The author comments on the challenges of dance in eighteenth century. He states that there was a lack of special provision for dance history in British universities, and libraries, the absence of an organized community of British dance scholars and of a scholarly dance journal. He also states...